Chris K. Haley

Ryan’s comments on my Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
article were very thought provoking for me. Some of the technological
advances coming have existential risks and I wanted to solidify my
strategy in addressing those risks.

I have tried to be careful about which organizations I have associated
with based on my philosophy of actively enabling the Singularity in a
safe manner. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence has a
goal of promoting the development of friendly Artificial General
Intelligence. The Lifeboat Foundation is a think tank which contemplates
the risks associated with the Singularity and acts as a voice of reason
in promoting a balanced approach to these technologies.

You can see a thought experiment going on right now at the Lifeboat
Foundation with
this poll assessing specific existential risks (runaway
nanotech, unfriendly artificial intelligence, asteroid impacts, etc) and
my thoughts on how to allocate a hypothetical $100M budget.

Chris K. Haley was the author of this article and runs
Nested Universe, a blog and podcast for artificial intelligence,
singularity, cosmology, physics, robotics, nanotechnology, metaphysics,
and philosophy. He is also a Systems Architect at
Mckesson. McKesson Corporation, ranked 6th on the
FORTUNE 500 in 2018, is a
healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to
helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs,
streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient
care.

His interests include: The Singularity, Artificial General
Intelligence, Cosmology,
Mathematics, Metaphysics, Cognitive Psychology, Consciousness, Quantum
Mechanics, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Genetics, and Philosophy. He is
intensely interested in promoting and bringing an understanding of the
Singularity, Artificial General Intelligence, and other topics to the
general public through his
blog. He sees the
Universe
as a collection of nested, fractal levels, with the emergent behavior of
organization levels driving its development. The phenomenon of molecules
emerges from atoms, cells from molecules, human consciousness from
neural networks of cells, and so on  thus forming an infinitely
Nested
Universe. It’s also the working title of his forthcoming
book.